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Aerospace Project

In the 4-H Aerospace projects, you will learn:

• how to develop marketable and productive skills for work and
  family life in science and technology;
• how to effectively communicate with others; and
• skills such as decision-making, getting along with others, planning and organizing, and responsibility.

Choose From These Projects:

• AEROSPACE ADVENTURES
• ROCKETS AWAY

 

AEROSPACE ADVENTURES
(For Youth Ages 5-18)

Through fun and challenging learn-by-doing activities you will learn about flying, kites, hot air balloons, remote control airplanes, gliders and space shuttles.

Member and Leader Manuals (Ages 5-18)
AR 1            Pre Flight
AR 2            Lift Off
AR 3            Reaching New Heights
AR 4            Pilot in Command
AR H            Helper’s Guide

Cloverbuds (Ages 5-7)

• Pre-Flight teaches 4-Hers about building and identifying parts of a rocket, comparing birds to airplanes, identifying aerospace careers, and making a space helmet and using space-suit-type gloves. Available through National 4-H Council. 

Juniors (Ages 8-10)

• Lift Off teaches 4-Hers about building a straw rocket, building a "Gnome" rocket, exploring aerospace careers, making paper airplanes, making and reading a map, identifying different aircrafts, how weather affects flying, the effects of disorientation in space, the "angle of attack", hot air balloon, making a paper helicopter, the International Phonetic Alphabet, and the parts of an airplane. Available through National 4-H Council. 

Intermediates (Ages 11-13)

• Reaching New Heights will teach 4-Hers about; exhibiting a model rocket, launching a "Gnome" rocket, making a flight stimulator, making a feather wing glider, building a controllable glider, experimenting with roll, pitch and yaw, stimulating gravitational pull, building a balloon shuttle, experimenting with payload weight, why rockets fly, building a fighter kite, identifying parts and functions of a remote control, discovering basic helicopter functions and parts, and testing a hang glider. Available through National 4-H Council. 

Seniors (Ages 14-18)

• Pilot in Command will teach 4-Hers about; designing and building a model rocket, constructing an altitude tracker, pilot certification requirements, sharing aerospace skills and knowledge, planning a flight route, evaluating navigation systems, exploring life in space, building a box kite, establishing an EMS helicopter service, discovering gravity, and how to deal with diversity and conflict. Available through National 4-H Council. 

Leader/Helper Guide

The Helper's Guide will help you support youth in his or her efforts to set goals and complete activities, as well as providing resources for the member's to use in completing the series. Available through National 4-H Council.

 

ROCKETS AWAY
(For Youth Ages 8-13)

Rockets Away stimulates interest in math, engineering, aerospace, and physics through the exploration of rocketry science.

Member and Leader Manuals (Ages 8-13)
AR1 1            Rockets Away
AR1 H            Leader's Guide

Cloverbuds (Ages 5-7)

• There is no project guide for this level.

Juniors and Intermediates (Ages 8-13)

• Rockets Away lets 4-Hers study the science of rocketry through a variety of hands-on experiments for all ages. Members conclude this project by building and launching 2-liter bottle water rockets. Available through Ohio State University. 

Seniors (Ages 14-18)

• There is no project guide for this level.

Leader/Helper Guide

The Helper's Guide will help you support youth in his or her efforts to set goals and complete activities, as well as providing resources for the member's to use in completing the series. Available through Ohio State University.

 

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